An Uncertain Future for PirateBay

Global Gaming Factory, the company who had bought over PirateBay for a paltry USD$8.5 million with huge promises to revolutionize digital downloads, has been delisted from the Swedish Stock Exchange on the exchange’s findings that Hans Pandeya, a person not with the best reputation to begin with, never had the necessary financing to go through with the deal. It is suspected that Pandeya had merely mentioned this news to boost the GGF’s almost worthless stock.

PirateBay founders who had before the GGF deal always stated that they intended for PirateBay to operate forever as an outlet for free content are now left in a lurch. The GGF deal removes a great deal of credibility from them and it is amazing that they would believe Pandeya had a genuine intention. Perhaps a deal made out of desperation…

The announcement previously on the TPB site when the whole deal with GGF came to light now looks extremely naive.

Now the real question is…what’s next for the Piratebay? Or perhaps more importantly, what is the future of public trackers with no obvious candidate to take on the crown? Mininova isn’t one of them. There isn’t any credible public tracker alternative out there and the only place where hosting a site of this nature seems probable would be..Mother Russia?